Cracked Round-Up: Shut Up About the Mayans Edition

Okay, this whole '2012 Mayan doomsday prediction' thing was funny for about two months back in '09, and it got funny again for a little while last November. But it's boring and played out and the sheer volume of attention it gets makes us suspect that some people out there are actually taking it seriously. Did no one learn anything from Harold Camping?

If you've wondered why everything you cook tastes like burnt ass, this article holds the answer.

Notable Comment: "To say lobsters feel no pain while being boiled alive is complete horseshit. Any creature whose life is ending by being boiled to death will freaking notice and has to feel pain of some kind"

Murf6762, we'll believe lobsters can feel pain when they stop tasting delicious with butter and lemon.

Screenwriters are only paid to think right up until the story ends. Which is why we have this list.

Notable Comment: "I always saw the implication in The Sound of Music to be the most touching part of what the nuns did. They basically give up their lives to ensure the Von Trapps escape. That's some serious charity."

Wow canwizard, all the nuns we know ever did was whip us with rulers and yell whenever they found our cigarettes.